Shefali Patel

University of Connecticut

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I am most passionate about making others happy.Ghana is an "island of peace" but the economic and health service inequalities between rural and urban regions within the country have left the country with unbalanced development. Global Medical Brigades develops sustainable health initiatives and provides relief where there is limited access to healthcare. Each year, more than 3,000 student volunteers and health professionals travel to Central America to establish mobile medical clinics in under-resourced communities. Each community with whom we partner receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months in which hundreds of patients are treated and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Between brigades, our in-country teams maintain relationships with the communities to provide follow-up

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Website: www.uconnglobalbrigades.com

Phone: 860-922-0502


Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Medical Brigades

About Us

University of Connecticut is a chapter of Global Medical Brigades, an international movement of students and medical professionals working alongside local communities and staff to implement sustainable health systems. We work in remote, rural, and under resourced communities in Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua and Ghana who would otherwise have limited to no access to health care. Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are provided access to healthcare and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends. nnIn conjunction with our Medical Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with economic development, sanitation and clean water projects, and uniquely implements these programs in a holistic model to meet a community’s health and economic goals. Our model systematically builds community ownership and collaboratively executes programs with the end goal of sustainably evolving to a relationship of impact monitoring. To learn more, please visit www.globalbrigades.org.